Usually means: Seal preventing leakage around shaft.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. stuffing box: Merriam-Webster
  2. stuffing box: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stuffing box: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stuffing box: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stuffing box: Vocabulary.com
  6. stuffing box: Wordnik
  7. stuffing-box, stuffing box: Wiktionary
  8. stuffing box: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. stuffing box: Dictionary.com
  10. Stuffing box: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. stuffing box: Rhymezone
  12. stuffing box: FreeDictionary.org
  13. stuffing box: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. stuffing box: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stuffing box: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Stuffing Box: Latitude Mexico
  5. STUFFING BOX: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stuffing box)

▸ noun:  (engineering) An assembly containing a seal, or sealing material, around a shaft.

Similar:
packing box, stuffing-box, journal box, cannon box, service box, project box, water box, squeeze box, seating, housing, more...

Types:
gland packing, mechanical seal, O-ring, gasket, more...

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Similar:
packing box, stuffing-box, journal box, cannon box, service box, project box, water box, squeeze box, seating, housing, more...

Types:
gland packing, mechanical seal, O-ring, gasket, more...



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